Case studies are rich sources of data, capturing both the process of inquiry with regard to a school’s particular focus for improvement, as well as the learning and observations obtained throughout the journey.
Focus: To develop a better way to foster engagement in a rural multi-grade, multi-subject class and preventing learners from falling behind in both subjects.
Focus: To increase sense of belonging/school connectedness for disconnected students.
Focus: To enrich our students’ creative writing, scientific learning and their development of oral language vocabulary in French and English and Carrier.
Focus: How might the use of structured, learner centered conversations with parents, teachers and students, through celebration of learning events, improve how we all communicate about and understand student learning and contribute to a positive school culture?
Focus: To increase motivation to succeed through several growth mindset initiatives and experiences.
Focus: To find ways to access Aboriginal knowledge in order to enrich our school community and Aboriginal learners.
Focus: To work with our Indigenous communities to provide learning opportunities that reflect our local culture, history, and language.
Focus: How does the implementation of a targeted, differentiated, word study program impact reading fluency and spelling skills?
Focus: On student strengths by being responsive and teaching specific/key reading strategies to develop proficient readers.
Focus: To create confident engaged writers by taking them into nature and utilizing nature and story workshop.
Focus: Students using technology to allow them to communicate their knowledge and learning more efficiently.
Focus: To use inquiry-based learning for curricular areas (i.e., social studies, science, ADST) so that students can explore topics that they find interesting.
Focus: On mindfully promoting kindness at our school.
Focus: Explicitly teaching core competencies and growth mindset language in the structure of student inquiry.
Focus: Engaging students in critical thinking and problem-solving through inquiry-based learning in Social Studies.
Focus: Collaborative innovation with children with special needs can develop a richer sense of inclusion for all.
Focus: Making the Core Competencies accessible and relevant for the students.
Focus: Fostering a love of reading culture in our school community so students will become engaged and enthusiastic readers.
Focus: Incorporating design thinking into core academics using design challenges in order to increase student flow.
Focus: To increase student engagement and competency with number sense.
Focus: How do we create independent learners with the use of core competencies and hands on learning?
Focus: Incorporating ecological knowledge into multiple classes and school culture to improve student’s eco-literacy.
Focus: Building student math muscles through group work on vertical non-permanent surfaces.
Focus: How can we accelerate the literacy learning in the early primary classrooms?
Focus: What level of impact will focusing on reading engagement and developing a positive reading identity have on overall student reading progress?
Focus: Implementing Reader‘s (Daily 5/Café) and Writer’s workshop structure into Primary classrooms to increase and support differentiated learning.
Focus: To increase staff and student understanding of First Peoples Principles of Learning and the Core Competencies.
Focus: On our vulnerable learners: How to better understand their needs; how to nurture their voices; how to better leverage the unique strengths of our school to further these goals; how to involve the community in supporting these goals.
Focus: How a hands-on approach to teaching problem solving and other mathematical concepts using puzzles and games could improve attitudes and growth in numeracy.
Focus: Will adding classroom libraries filled with good fit books increase the students’ love of reading and in turn, their reading levels (the focus was on 2 specific divisions)?